Can you still remember your first email message?
Mine was in 1994, in the remote island of Camiguin. I was then connected with the Camiguin Telephone Project, a grant of the German government. At that time, there were no ISPs, surfing, cafes, Yahoo, Friendster, etc. It was just plain text BBS (bulletin board system) and email. I got the info about bbs, email and Internet from the pioneer himself, Joel Disini. He sent me a diskettes of a DOS program called FrontDoor and installed them on one of the project PCs - a 486!
After installation, I composed a short message to Joel “… please reply upon receiving this message”. After my message was sent to Manila via dialup at only 9600kbps (or 0.096MB/s), to my surprise, I got this one - “You have a new message”. When I opened it, it reads “when you receive this message, congratulations! rgds. - joel”. “How the hell I got this message?”. Suprised and excited, I started exchanging email to my wife working in Fairchild Cebu, to Joel and to our German consultants.
Email facilitated my communication with GTZ Headquarters in Germany re progress of the Camiguin Telephone Project. Joel somehow contributed to the Camiguin telephone project because it was a free account of The E-Mail Company! Thanks Joel!
P.S. Joel is the Dot.PH domain (.ph) administrator and his maternal grandma hails from Kuguita, Mambajao, Camiguin.
@chona
it’s hard not to pay our last respect. gabriel is a nice person - very friendly, inside and outside the tennis court. tks for your blessings.
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nan, this has nothing to do with your first email but glad to know what has been done with the e mail transactions in the last years of the existence of the so called ‘hi techno ‘ in the remote island, but hey out of no where you came during the wake of my husband im grateful to you,i thank you so much…..
may your family be blessed with love and good health
take care…
PIATTI FAMILY
Posted by chona piatti at June 28, 2011, 11:00 am